Re: power saving - A good idea

[Vitux <viggovap@mail.worldonline.dk>]

Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:37:21AM -0500, w trillich wrote:
> >
> > i have something similar which i haven't been able to disable
> > (not via bios, not via hdparm--at least i've not stumbled into
> > the right parameter yet)--
> >
> >       kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> >       kernel: ide1: reset: success
> >
> > after a time if i access my secondary drive, i get messages like
> > this (usually more). after about 15 seconds, the drive is up and
> > ready, all seems well. but those 15 seconds can kill a website...
> >
> > suggestions on how to disable this spindown?
> 
> i have this problem on my IBM Deskstar 7200RPM drives (one in a Apple
> G3 the other in an intel box) the closest i have come is:
> 
> /sbin/hdparm -S 0 /dev/hda which seems to make it happen less (maybe,
> its supposed to make it happen not at all) but I have noticed that
> while the drive still sleeps once in awhile i no longer get the DMA
> errors under 2.2.15 like i did with 2.2.14.
> 
> wtih 2.2.14 i could intentionally put it to sleep and it get that
> error when it wakes, no more on 2.2.15.
> 
> i also run /sbin/hdparm -k 1 /dev/hda at boot as well so that i don't
> lose DMA after one of those errors, which makes the disk performance
> slow as snot.
> 
> read man hdparm for more info.
> 
> --
How do you run this stuff at boot? (yes, newbie here...)
I get the same kind of errors :((
Vitux

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